The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1887-07-21

&AACAoAAo w AOo, ~ AC0 OOtu storage STAND.
Fish and Crabs every Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday, at Cold Storage Stand.
All Meats and Fish sold from our stand
guaranteed.
Stall Fed and Good Florida Beef at our
stand Saturday
TALLAHASSEE Ice & Cold STORAGE Co.
Large quantities of excellent pears are daily
shipped from this city to the Northern markets,
and the returns 30 far are satisfactory.
| Col. John A. Henderson and family re-
turned Saturday from Tampa, where they had
been on visit. The Colonel was summoned to
Tampa again by q telegram on Sunday, stating
that his brother, Mr.. W. P. Henderson, was
rapidly sinking with consumption. On Tues.
day private kilograms announced the death OF
Mr. Henderson, which occurred at an early hour
On that day.
Mr.. w. P. Denham came up from Ellaville
on Saturday and remained till Tuesday.
APear shippers realizing from $1.75 to
$3.50 per crate and 81 to $40 per barrel in New
York.
The University Library is an excellent in.
stltutien to patronize during the dull summer
months. Leading daily papers and the best Pc
riodicas are always on file, besides fine library
OF choice books. Spare hours could be pleasant
~ and probably spent in the cool, handsome
library rooms, or books could be taken home.
some of Tallahassee's most popular and
charming young ladies spend the afternoons
gracefully engaged in the pleasing game of GRO
quet in the Capitol grounds.
whether from swampy land or stagnant
pool, or from the deadly gases of city sewers ma
larla posons are the same Ayers Ague Cure,
taken according to directions, is a warranted
specific for malarial disorders.
=" Beauty" Judge Hilton's Kentucky thor
oughbred shorthorn COW, the finest creature of
her kind in all this section, died suddenly yester
day from unknown cause Beauty" was as
fruitful as bountful, and when fresh and cared
Tor gave tweniy-one measured quarts of milk
daily. She has left three daughters and two of
these are at this time giving daily four gallons of
milk, with no other feed than Bermuda grass
pasturage. They inherit the docility and intelli
gence OF their mother.
-Messrs Robert and Preston Cockrell, sons
OF Colonel A. w. Cockrell, OF Jacksonville, ar
rived in the city to day and will be the guests of
Ex-Governor ID. s. Walker for week or two
Mr. Robert Cockrell graduated with the degree
of Bachelor of Arts, at the University of Vr-
glnia, few weeks ago.
Prof. John A Graham, General Manager of
the Naples improvement Company, arrived at
the Capital yesterday.
We are requested to announce that Rev.
W. NJ. Davis will preach at the Clinton street
Baptist Church next Monday night
Mr.. Seabury, Northern gentleman, who
few years ago settled short distance west of
tallahassee, last week brought in samples of as
fine corn as can be produced in any country
The ears are of good size the grain perfect, well
filed out and the corn heavy. One ear meas
ured IA inches in length-in fact, they are all
long. The variety looks like Yellow Flint"
and, being very hard, must be weevil proof
The fiftieth annual session of Wesleyan Fe-
male College, Macon, Ga, begins October 5th
This is one of the best institutions of learning in
the South, and parents desiring to give their
daughters thorough education would do we'll
to bear this fact in mind. See advertisement
Quite party leave for ST. Teresa, on James
Island, this morning.
The Y. NJ. G. A. rooms are opened every even
ing, and everybody is cordially invited to attend
Prayer meeting Saturday evenings at o'clock
and Sunday afternoon at o'clock.
Mr.. c. w. Jones, Jr., left for New York
last Monday.
Col. G. H. Smith, Messrs s. 3. Smith and
Fl. ]. Mccall, of Madison, and JAS T. Young, of
Lake City are among the late arrivals at the
ST. James.
Have you visited Murray Hall 3f
Remember the Building and Loan Assocta-
ton meeting at court house, tonight All fire
invited.
Mr. David F. Granting, Of Centreville,
placed upon our table this morning bag of beau
tiful LeConte pears, none of which measured less
than eleven inches around. Half of the number
were twelve inches in circumference and
weighed fifteen ounces each--down weight
Mr.. Granting has about 200 young trees just
beginning to bear, and they will bring him a
small fortune every year.
There will be wedding on west Gaines
street to night.
The value OF our paper as an advertising
medium is well attested by the fact that the
Staunton Male Academy and the Sherwood Fee
male Seminary, OF Staunton, Va, the foremost
and best equipped schools of the South whose
advertisements appear in this issue, use it as a
means Of communication with the public
MIR. w. H. Cox, living near Silver Lake,
has demonstrated that as fine peaches can be
grown in Leon county as anywhere in America.
The heat last Saturday had the effect of in
tensifying the felicitous feelings of colored
couple, residents of Westcott's Addition, who
being afflicted by an ungovernable desire to en-
ter into life partnership, wended their way to
the sf1ce of the County Judge, and after pro-
curing the necessary papers prescribed by the
statutes in such cases made and provided, Judge
West was invited to perform the ceremony.
The bride, blushing specimen of ebony hue,
attired In few bright ribbons anda fancy neck
appendage, stood fondlY by the side of the stall
wart fellow with plated hair and anxious
countenance who played the secondary part of
groom-elect. The imposing ceremonies were
performed in the presence of many admiring
witnesses. all Of whom enjoyed the conspicuous
GOODNESS and delberation with which the bril-
liantly bedecked W oman Of Africa guided the
hapless man through the intricacies incident to
the marriage ceremonials. After they were pro-
nounced no longer two-but one-they marched
slowly down Monroe street, followed by long
procession of amused colored persons who re-
joced over the heroic success Of the gaudily at